From mjg at phoenixtrap.com Tue Sep 6 08:27:27 2011
From: mjg at phoenixtrap.com (Mark Gardner)
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 11:27:27 -0400
Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] Can we go with Sept. 12 for the next meeting?
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I'm putting together a talk on DBIx::Class::Schema::Critic. Are we
still on for the 12th?
From darian at criticode.com Tue Sep 6 08:31:24 2011
From: darian at criticode.com (Darian Anthony Patrick)
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 11:31:24 -0400
Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] Can we go with Sept. 12 for the next meeting?
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Yep. We're on for the 12th, Mark, at 7:00p.m. in Rm. 307, Levine Hall.
On 09/06/2011 11:27 AM, Mark Gardner wrote:
> I'm putting together a talk on DBIx::Class::Schema::Critic. Are we
> still on for the 12th?
> _______________________________________________
> Philadelphia-pm mailing list
> Philadelphia-pm at pm.org
> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/philadelphia-pm
>
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From darian at criticode.com Tue Sep 6 15:19:55 2011
From: darian at criticode.com (Darian Anthony Patrick)
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:19:55 -0400
Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] Upcoming meeting dates
Message-ID: <4E669C8B.7080107@criticode.com>
Hello all,
I have received confirmation for use of Rm. 307, Levine Hall, for the
following dates:
Sept. 12, 2011
Oct. 3, 2011
Nov. 7, 2011
Dec. 5, 2011
Jan. 9, 2012
Feb. 6, 2012
--
Darian Anthony Patrick, Criticode LLC
Office: (215) 789-9956
Facsimile: (866) 789-2992
XMPP/SMTP: darian at criticode.com
Web: http://criticode.com
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From c.nehren/phl at shadowcat.co.uk Tue Sep 6 20:19:03 2011
From: c.nehren/phl at shadowcat.co.uk (Chris Nehren)
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 23:19:03 -0400
Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] Upcoming meeting dates
In-Reply-To: <4E669C8B.7080107@criticode.com>
References: <4E669C8B.7080107@criticode.com>
Message-ID: <36AD1E15-E156-4BC3-823C-C12BB4E52AE6@shadowcat.co.uk>
On Sep 6, 2011, at 18:19, Darian Anthony Patrick wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have received confirmation for use of Rm. 307, Levine Hall, for the
> following dates:
>
> Sept. 12, 2011
> Oct. 3, 2011
> Nov. 7, 2011
> Dec. 5, 2011
> Jan. 9, 2012
> Feb. 6, 2012
This is very cool. Thank you, Darian, for all the work you've put into this. phl.pm wouldn't be possible without your effort!
--
Thanks and best regards,
Chris Nehren
From waltman at pobox.com Wed Sep 7 04:39:19 2011
From: waltman at pobox.com (Walt Mankowski)
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 07:39:19 -0400
Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] Upcoming meeting dates
In-Reply-To: <36AD1E15-E156-4BC3-823C-C12BB4E52AE6@shadowcat.co.uk>
References: <4E669C8B.7080107@criticode.com>
<36AD1E15-E156-4BC3-823C-C12BB4E52AE6@shadowcat.co.uk>
Message-ID: <20110907113918.GJ19457@mawode.com>
On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 11:19:03PM -0400, Chris Nehren wrote:
> On Sep 6, 2011, at 18:19, Darian Anthony Patrick wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I have received confirmation for use of Rm. 307, Levine Hall, for the
> > following dates:
> >
> > Sept. 12, 2011
> > Oct. 3, 2011
> > Nov. 7, 2011
> > Dec. 5, 2011
> > Jan. 9, 2012
> > Feb. 6, 2012
>
>
> This is very cool. Thank you, Darian, for all the work you've put into this. phl.pm wouldn't be possible without your effort!
Yes, thanks!
Since I see that the October 3 meeting is also before PPW, and since
Mark's already giving a talk on the 12, I'm thinking I'd like to push
pack my PPW practice talk on pack/unpack until then. On the one hand,
my talk's been changed from 50 to 20 minutes. But on the other, this
week's gotten crazy and I'm not sure I'll have much time to prepare
anything before Monday.
Walt
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From perl.phl at rjbs.manxome.org Wed Sep 7 05:21:55 2011
From: perl.phl at rjbs.manxome.org (Ricardo Signes)
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 08:21:55 -0400
Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] Upcoming meeting dates
In-Reply-To: <20110907113918.GJ19457@mawode.com>
References: <4E669C8B.7080107@criticode.com>
<36AD1E15-E156-4BC3-823C-C12BB4E52AE6@shadowcat.co.uk>
<20110907113918.GJ19457@mawode.com>
Message-ID: <20110907122155.GA6125@cancer.codesimply.com>
* Walt Mankowski [2011-09-07T07:39:19]
> Since I see that the October 3 meeting is also before PPW, and since
> Mark's already giving a talk on the 12, I'm thinking I'd like to push
> pack my PPW practice talk on pack/unpack until then. On the one hand,
Ooh, you're doing a talk on pack? Maybe you can give us a runthrough at ABE.pm
next week!
--
rjbs
From mjg at phoenixtrap.com Sun Sep 11 18:50:28 2011
From: mjg at phoenixtrap.com (Mark Gardner)
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 21:50:28 -0400
Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] Upcoming meeting dates
In-Reply-To: <4E669C8B.7080107@criticode.com>
References: <4E669C8B.7080107@criticode.com>
Message-ID:
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Darian Anthony Patrick
wrote:
> I have received confirmation for use of Rm. 307, Levine Hall, for the
> following dates:
>
> Sept. 12, 2011
> Oct. 3, 2011
> Nov. 7, 2011
> Dec. 5, 2011
> Jan. 9, 2012
> Feb. 6, 2012
Thanks Darian! Walt, are you or someone else going to update the
phl.pm.org home page's Upcoming Events?
--
Mark Gardner $
From c.nehren/phl at shadowcat.co.uk Sun Sep 11 19:44:04 2011
From: c.nehren/phl at shadowcat.co.uk (Chris Nehren)
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 22:44:04 -0400
Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] Upcoming meeting dates
In-Reply-To:
References: <4E669C8B.7080107@criticode.com>
Message-ID:
On Sep 11, 2011, at 21:50, Mark Gardner wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Darian Anthony Patrick
> wrote:
>> I have received confirmation for use of Rm. 307, Levine Hall, for the
>> following dates:
>>
>> Sept. 12, 2011
>> Oct. 3, 2011
>> Nov. 7, 2011
>> Dec. 5, 2011
>> Jan. 9, 2012
>> Feb. 6, 2012
>
> Thanks Darian! Walt, are you or someone else going to update the
> phl.pm.org home page's Upcoming Events?
I believe only Walt has the ability to do this. If we put the site in a git repo, it would decrease the work that needs to be done, such that one would only need a small shell script that pulled changes and then deployed them.
--
Thanks and best regards,
Chris Nehren
From waltman at pobox.com Sun Sep 11 20:24:56 2011
From: waltman at pobox.com (Walt Mankowski)
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 23:24:56 -0400
Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] Upcoming meeting dates
In-Reply-To:
References: <4E669C8B.7080107@criticode.com>
Message-ID: <20110912032456.GM19457@mawode.com>
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 10:44:04PM -0400, Chris Nehren wrote:
> On Sep 11, 2011, at 21:50, Mark Gardner wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Darian Anthony Patrick
> > wrote:
> >> I have received confirmation for use of Rm. 307, Levine Hall, for the
> >> following dates:
> >>
> >> Sept. 12, 2011
> >> Oct. 3, 2011
> >> Nov. 7, 2011
> >> Dec. 5, 2011
> >> Jan. 9, 2012
> >> Feb. 6, 2012
> >
> > Thanks Darian! Walt, are you or someone else going to update the
> > phl.pm.org home page's Upcoming Events?
>
> I believe only Walt has the ability to do this. If we put the site
> in a git repo, it would decrease the work that needs to be done,
> such that one would only need a small shell script that pulled
> changes and then deployed them.
I actually do have it in a github repo:
https://github.com/waltman/phl-pm-www
I was planning to talk about that at one of our previous meetings, but
we never got around to it. So let's plan to talk about it tomorrow
before Mark's talk.
Walt
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From darian at criticode.com Mon Sep 12 15:37:42 2011
From: darian at criticode.com (Darian Anthony Patrick)
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 18:37:42 -0400
Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] Absent this evening
Message-ID: <6449A18D-66EB-4585-914C-774A0D9F6CC0@criticode.com>
All,
I will be absent this evening due to a personal issue.
If you cannot get in to the building, please enter through the guard attended entrance of the Towne building on 34th St. To get to this entrance, walk past the loading dock near the Walnut St. entrance and continue on the walkway past the glass entrance to Levine, past the music building, to the entrance to Towne Hall on the left. There will be a landscaped cluster of foliage and two benches right next to this entrance.
Walk into this entrance, sign in, then turn left and walk down the ramp to reach Levine hall.
--
Darian Anthony Patrick
From c.nehren/phl at shadowcat.co.uk Mon Sep 12 17:17:20 2011
From: c.nehren/phl at shadowcat.co.uk (Chris Nehren)
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:17:20 -0400
Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] OO tutorial for Perl
Message-ID:
I saw a few bewildered faces at Mark's talk tonight in regards to some OO concepts. To help address this, I'd like to share the new perlootut doc which Dave Rolsky wrote for Perl. It's in blead, here: http://bit.ly/ruttnV
Sent from my iPhone
From sdn.phlpm at mailnull.com Thu Sep 15 13:47:13 2011
From: sdn.phlpm at mailnull.com (sdn.phlpm at mailnull.com)
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:47:13 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] 378,000 milkshakes
Message-ID: <20110915204713.DD6BD510236@outside.256.com>
Hello Perlmongers,
For those who were not at the technical meeting earlier this week, Geoff posed an interesting math question. He had visited a restaurant that advertised 75 ice cream flavors, and therefore (they claimed), there were 378,000 possible milkshakes they could make for you. We attempted to figure out how they had arrived at that number. (We failed).
I've now come up with one possible way. 378,000 is 75 * 5040. 5040 is 7!. So there's a clue. It would be silly to have to choose a permutation of seven ingredients, but another way of arriving at 5040 is by various combinations. Ignoring rearrangements, there are N!/(M!(N-M!)) ways of picking M items out of N possible choices.
So, for example, if you must choose 4 ingredients out of a space of 10 possibilities, there are 10!/(4!6!) ways to do that.
10!
-----
4! 6!
=
10*9*8 * 7!
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24 * 720
=
720 * 5040
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24 * 720
which equals 5040/24.
So here's my solution. It's a bit contrived, but it could work. If a milkshake is defined as:
one scoop of any flavor of ice cream (75 choices)
your choice of four out of ten other ingredients (5040/24 choices)
small, medium, or large size (3 choices)
any combination of three optional ingredients (2^3 = 8 choices),
then you have 75 * 5040/24 * 3 * 8 = 378,000 possible milkshakes.
Ta-da!
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From mjd at plover.com Thu Sep 15 16:01:08 2011
From: mjd at plover.com (Mark Jason Dominus)
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 19:01:08 -0400
Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] 378,000 milkshakes
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:47:13 EDT."
<20110915204713.DD6BD510236@outside.256.com>
Message-ID: <1240.1316127668@plover.com>
> We attempted to figure out how they had arrived at that number.
That is a funny synchronicity. Just last night I was trying to think
of a good algorithm for solving the following problem: given a
positive integer M, find n > 0 and k > 1 such that M = n choose k =
n!/k!(n-k)!, or determine that no such n and k exist.
The obvious brute-force search algorithm is O(sqrt(M)), which is not
efficient; it should be O(p(log M)) for some polynomial p.
From fljohnson3 at isp.com Thu Sep 15 20:21:57 2011
From: fljohnson3 at isp.com (Floyd Johnson)
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 23:21:57 -0400
Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] 378,000 milkshakes
In-Reply-To: <1240.1316127668@plover.com>
References: <1240.1316127668@plover.com>
Message-ID: <1316143317.5040.118.camel@defiant>
On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 19:01 -0400, Mark Jason Dominus wrote:
> > We attempted to figure out how they had arrived at that number.
>
> That is a funny synchronicity. Just last night I was trying to think
> of a good algorithm for solving the following problem: given a
> positive integer M, find n > 0 and k > 1 such that M = n choose k =
> n!/k!(n-k)!, or determine that no such n and k exist.
>
I'll raise you one on "synchronicity" by adding "esoterica":
En route home this afternoon, on a question of how technology has
progressed, I bumped into the topic of "permutations" (even twenty years
ago, combinatorics was painful)-I knew factorials were involved in
working such "n choose k" matters, but you have just filled the gap in
my memory.
I was trying to guess what, for an old tabletop game called "Electronic
Detective", the processor and storage matters (if even applicable) might
have looked like. I think the box claimed "over 100,000 possible cases".
What I recall is:
-20 characters total to be potentially questioned, exactly one being the
victim, exactly one other the culprit. Mathwise, this is "20 choose 2".
-Six locations, exactly one is the crime scene, the other five assigned
to the 19 surviving characters as where each fled to when the shots rang
out. A more-modern version might make use of the possibility of one
"potential witness/suspect" having seen another were the two assigned
the same location by the "case generator". "6 choose 1" for the crime
scene (three bits); "19 choose 5" for where everyone else went; the
culprit is, as the included soundsheet explains, "too smart to return to
the scene of the crime".
-Two possible weapons. This would mean what we call a Boolean.
I think it also might have stored the number of players and one other
piece of user-supplied info punched in just after it finished "booting".
Those, being two 0 through 9 digits, would most sanely be crammed into a
single 0-99 value, translating to seven bits.
I can't seem to bring myself to grind out the factorials, but I have a
curious feeling that any RAM in the thing might have been less than a
quarter-K (256 bytes).
In theory, someone with the marbles for combinatorics (make of that what
you will) might be able to reverse-engineer that ancient Ideal-branded
bit of electronics.
From arc at aaroncrane.co.uk Fri Sep 16 09:32:02 2011
From: arc at aaroncrane.co.uk (Aaron Crane)
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 17:32:02 +0100
Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] Visiting monger
Message-ID:
Hello, Philadelphians.
I'm a Perl monger from Edinburgh, Scotland who's planning to be in
Philadelphia next month. Would there be any interest in a social
meeting of some sort while I'm in town?
I'll be around from October 5th, I think, and then I'm planning to go
to the Pittsburgh Perl Workshop. Speaking of which, is anyone
planning on driving there and/or back? If so, I'd be glad to chip in
for gas in exchange for a ride.
Also, if anyone has a couch I could crash on for a couple of nights,
I'd be much obliged ??drop me a line off-list.
Thanks.
--
Aaron Crane ** http://aaroncrane.co.uk/
From waltman at pobox.com Fri Sep 16 12:06:17 2011
From: waltman at pobox.com (Walt Mankowski)
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:06:17 -0400
Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] Visiting monger
In-Reply-To:
References:
Message-ID: <20110916190617.GD19457@mawode.com>
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 05:32:02PM +0100, Aaron Crane wrote:
> Hello, Philadelphians.
>
> I'm a Perl monger from Edinburgh, Scotland who's planning to be in
> Philadelphia next month. Would there be any interest in a social
> meeting of some sort while I'm in town?
Perhaps, but it would depend on the timing. We're having a tech
meeting on the 3rd, but it sounds like you won't be here in time for
that. Maybe we could do something on the 5th or the 6th, or the
following week if you're still in town then.
> I'll be around from October 5th, I think, and then I'm planning to go
> to the Pittsburgh Perl Workshop. Speaking of which, is anyone
> planning on driving there and/or back? If so, I'd be glad to chip in
> for gas in exchange for a ride.
Some of us will be driving out on Friday morning, October 7th.
There's a good chance we still have an empty seat, but I'm not 100%
sure yet.
Walt
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From perl.phl at rjbs.manxome.org Fri Sep 16 17:56:15 2011
From: perl.phl at rjbs.manxome.org (Ricardo Signes)
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:56:15 -0400
Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] Visiting monger
In-Reply-To:
References:
Message-ID: <20110917005615.GA20315@cancer.codesimply.com>
* Aaron Crane [2011-09-16T12:32:02]
> I'm a Perl monger from Edinburgh, Scotland who's planning to be in
> Philadelphia next month. Would there be any interest in a social
> meeting of some sort while I'm in town?
I work, but don't live, in Philly, and would be glad to figure out lunch. I
can probably drag Dominus along, too. I think it would have to be the 7th,
since I'm only in town Mon/Tue/Fri and I leave for YAPC::Asia that weekend.
--
rjbs
From waltman at pobox.com Sat Sep 17 05:00:55 2011
From: waltman at pobox.com (Walt Mankowski)
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 08:00:55 -0400
Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] Visiting monger
In-Reply-To: <20110917005615.GA20315@cancer.codesimply.com>
References:
<20110917005615.GA20315@cancer.codesimply.com>
Message-ID: <20110917120055.GF19457@mawode.com>
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 08:56:15PM -0400, Ricardo Signes wrote:
> * Aaron Crane [2011-09-16T12:32:02]
> > I'm a Perl monger from Edinburgh, Scotland who's planning to be in
> > Philadelphia next month. Would there be any interest in a social
> > meeting of some sort while I'm in town?
>
> I work, but don't live, in Philly, and would be glad to figure out lunch. I
> can probably drag Dominus along, too. I think it would have to be the 7th,
> since I'm only in town Mon/Tue/Fri and I leave for YAPC::Asia that weekend.
We'll probably be heading out to Pittsburgh before lunch on the 7th.
If Dominus is driving out with us, he won't be able to make it. I
could, however, do lunch on the 6th.
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From waltman at pobox.com Tue Sep 20 09:11:43 2011
From: waltman at pobox.com (Walt Mankowski)
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:11:43 -0400
Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] Visiting monger
In-Reply-To: <20110916190617.GD19457@mawode.com>
References:
<20110916190617.GD19457@mawode.com>
Message-ID: <20110920161143.GA29201@mawode.com>
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 03:06:17PM -0400, Walt Mankowski wrote:
> Some of us will be driving out on Friday morning, October 7th.
> There's a good chance we still have an empty seat, but I'm not 100%
> sure yet.
We do, in fact, have an extra seat, and you're welcome to join us.
Please contact me off-list if you'd like to come along.
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From mjg at phoenixtrap.com Tue Sep 20 12:10:33 2011
From: mjg at phoenixtrap.com (Mark Gardner)
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:10:33 -0400
Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] Fwd: [Perlweekly] The current Perl Weekly News -
Issue #8
In-Reply-To:
References: <20110919072359.6BD33508002@s6.hostlocal.com>
Message-ID:
Gabor suggested that this be forwarded to Perl Mongers groups, so here it
is. Subscription info is at the bottom.
--
Mark Gardner $
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From: Gabor Szabo
Date: Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 3:23 AM
Subject: [Perlweekly] The current Perl Weekly News - Issue #8
To: perlweekly at perlweekly.com
Perl Weekly
Issue #8 - September 19, 2011
You can read the newsletter on the web,
if you prefer.
Hi there,
This issue was mostly prepared on the train from Helsinki to Tampere. It's
great to have wifi on trains, even it that means I missed some of the views
of Finland. Never mind. I still caught a glimpse of the beautiful sky and we
still have the trip back.
New event: The Twin City Perl Workshop 2011 in Vienna and Bratislava,
between 4-5 November has been announced. See details below.
Experiment: The links to the articles are now using bit.ly in the e-mail.
This will allow me to gain some insight which articles are more popular.
Please let me know if something is not working.
Poll: I am preparing a poll asking people (both Perl Weekly subscribers and
others) what kind of articles would they be interested to read. I'd
appreciate your help telling me what should be the options? Please reply in
email!
Now to the posts...
Headlines
The New OO Docs of Dave Rolsky for the Perl Core Have Been
Merged
After many months of working the new OOP docs written by Dave Rolsky finally
reached the point when they could be merged into the core perl
documentation. This means they will be part of the next official release of
perl. If you are impatient to wait you can check out his blog entry and from
there the link to the documentation.
ack: 1.96 released with Groovy support
ack is like grep, just better.
Articles
How to Use Regular Expressions to Parse Nested Structures
Peter Thoeny uses the SpreadSheetPlugin of TWiki as an example to show how
to build a mixture of subroutines and regular expressions to parse data that
can have nested elements. (eg. XML or HTML)
Corelist web interface
Tina M?ller (tinita) mentioned the web interface for the Corelist module she
rebuilt. I have not seen this website earlier but I think it is really nice
that you can check when was a module first included in the standard Perl
distribution and which version of a module was included in each version of
Perl.
Perl for Google Fusion Tables
'Fusion Tables is a new Google product for data storage: a kind of database'
writes Robin Clarke (RCL) while introducing his new module Google::Fusion
encapsulating the access to the service.
02packages.dependencies.txt.gz && apt-cpan
For a long time I wanted a solution to be able to use CPAN.pm to install a
module but let it default to apt-get (or yum) if a dependency is already
available from the vendor. Jozef shows his solution using the MetaCPAN::API
Discussion
Which is the better language to learn Perl or PHP?
I wrote this article in response to a question I got. I tried to make the
comparison related to the job opportunities. The article was quite popular
but the strange thing was that some of the comments on Google Plus and
Twitter related to the relative qualities of the two languages and not the
career opportunities.
RESTful Perl Resources
chromatic asked for directions on how to explain and teach REST for Perl
programmers. Several comments from well known Perl programmers pointed to
the 'REST in Practice' book, a few articles and a CPAN module to help with
the task.
Video
Mojocast Authentication, Helpers, and Plugins
Glen Hinkle (tempire) released the third episode of his Mojolicious
screencast.
Hello World
Leo Lapworth (Ranguard) has just released a new, 2 minute screencast showing
how to write hello world on the command line.
Games
prisk (Games::Risk) gains its own map format, allowing translations!
I have already managed to waste a lot of time playing Risk using prisk
written by Jerome Quelin (jq). Now its your turn. New map format and a
partial move to Moose will allow more people to get involved in the
development and the localization of the game.
Code
How to find files with Path::Class::Rule
David Golden (dagolden) introduces his new module for traversing a directory
structure an processing files and directories based on some rule. Think
about a Perlish way of using the Unix find command.
Faster HTTP usage
Martin Evans compares the speed of LWP to WWW::Curl::Easy and shows how the
latter is faster. The code is more complex though and I am not sure if being
faster on the CPU really matters. After all these both solve network
intensive tasks. Waiting for the HTTP request still takes a lot more time
than the CPU usage.
Tool for Perl Scripting - Devel::Comments
Tyler Slijboom shows how to use your comments to have seamless logging in
your code for easier debugging. Though it is not mentioned in the blog but
Devel::Comments is a fork of Smart::Comments. For some reason I never used
either of those but I should give them a try as the idea seems to be good.
Perl Examples: Array of Arrays, Hash of Arrays, Hash of Hashes,
Stack
Sathiya Moorthy gives 5 simple examples dealing with complex data structures
in Perl.
Perl 6
This is not enough!
One of the biggest issues I had with Rakudo Perl 6 was its speed. I can
program around some bugs. I can implement some missing CPAN modules but if
it takes minutes to run my code instead of seconds I'll easily lose my
patience. Jonathan Worthington describes how, getting a new and faster
machine got him to improve the speed of Rakudo even further. - I think it is
time for me to take another look at Rakudo.
Padre
Padre realtime diff :)
Ahmad M. Zawawi (azawawi) shows further progress in the development of
Padre. Improved integration with VCS tools allows the Padre user to see the
Not Perl
Bootstrap && Perl
As miguel prz (niceperl) also pointed out this is not exactly a Perl post
but I hope people from the Perl community will pick up the idea and
integrate Bootstrap with their web framework.
Success or failure ? with open source
This is not a Perl specific post but I think people who are involved in open
source Perl projects or who are using one - in short anyone using Perl -
could benefit from reading and thinking about the question: 'What makes an
open source project successful?' Is that what Ulrich Habel (rhaen) wrote or
is that something else?
Events
Twin City Perl Workshop
November 4-5, 2011, Vienna, Austria and Bratislava, Slovakia
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From arc at aaroncrane.co.uk Tue Sep 20 14:58:50 2011
From: arc at aaroncrane.co.uk (Aaron Crane)
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:58:50 -0400
Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] Visiting monger
In-Reply-To: <20110917120055.GF19457@mawode.com>
References:
<20110917005615.GA20315@cancer.codesimply.com>
<20110917120055.GF19457@mawode.com>
Message-ID:
Walt Mankowski wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 08:56:15PM -0400, Ricardo Signes wrote:
>> * Aaron Crane [2011-09-16T12:32:02]
>> > I'm a Perl monger from Edinburgh, Scotland who's planning to be in
>> > Philadelphia next month. ?Would there be any interest in a social
>> > meeting of some sort while I'm in town?
>>
>> I work, but don't live, in Philly, and would be glad to figure out lunch. ?I
>> can probably drag Dominus along, too. ?I think it would have to be the 7th,
>> since I'm only in town Mon/Tue/Fri and I leave for YAPC::Asia that weekend.
>
> We'll probably be heading out to Pittsburgh before lunch on the 7th.
> If Dominus is driving out with us, he won't be able to make it. ?I
> could, however, do lunch on the 6th.
Sorry about the delay getting back to you all ? one way or another,
I've been without internet access for much of the time since I first
wrote.
A lunch meeting on the 6th sounds like it would work best given the
constraints for travel to PPW, even though some people won't be able
to make it. Does anyone have a suggestion for place and time?
--
Aaron Crane ** http://aaroncrane.co.uk/
From c.nehren/phl at shadowcat.co.uk Tue Sep 20 19:33:25 2011
From: c.nehren/phl at shadowcat.co.uk (Chris Nehren)
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 22:33:25 -0400
Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] Visiting monger
In-Reply-To:
References:
<20110917005615.GA20315@cancer.codesimply.com>
<20110917120055.GF19457@mawode.com>
Message-ID: <20110921023325.GC8708@isuckatdomains>
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 17:58:50 -0400 , Aaron Crane wrote:
> Sorry about the delay getting back to you all ? one way or another,
> I've been without internet access for much of the time since I first
> wrote.
>
> A lunch meeting on the 6th sounds like it would work best given the
> constraints for travel to PPW, even though some people won't be able
> to make it. Does anyone have a suggestion for place and time?
I could make lunch on the sixth, presuming it's somewhere in center city
or university city. Suggestion on place depends on what you want to
have. We're fortunate to have so very many places to eat in the city
that it's difficult to recommend a place without any idea of what one
wants to have. I'm partial to Asian cuisine myself, but am open to other
options.
--
Thanks and best regards,
Chris Nehren
From arc at aaroncrane.co.uk Mon Sep 26 14:21:10 2011
From: arc at aaroncrane.co.uk (Aaron Crane)
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:21:10 -0400
Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] Visiting monger
In-Reply-To: <20110921023325.GC8708@isuckatdomains>
References:
<20110917005615.GA20315@cancer.codesimply.com>
<20110917120055.GF19457@mawode.com>
<20110921023325.GC8708@isuckatdomains>
Message-ID:
Chris Nehren wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 17:58:50 -0400 , Aaron Crane wrote:
>> A lunch meeting on the 6th sounds like it would work best given the
>> constraints for travel to PPW, even though some people won't be able
>> to make it. ?Does anyone have a suggestion for place and time?
>
> I could make lunch on the sixth, presuming it's somewhere in center city
> or university city. Suggestion on place depends on what you want to
> have. We're fortunate to have so very many places to eat in the city
> that it's difficult to recommend a place without any idea of what one
> wants to have. I'm partial to Asian cuisine myself, but am open to other
> options.
Asian food works well for me, and I'm generally an unfussy eater who
can enjoy pretty much any cuisine, so I'm happy to go along with the
consensus. I'm naturally planning to try a cheesesteak while I'm in
town, but I can happily do that another time, of course.
I'm currently booked into a hotel near the 2nd Street subway station.
I'm sure I can find my way to another neighborhood for lunch, though.
--
Aaron Crane ** http://aaroncrane.co.uk/
From brainbuz at brainbuz.org Mon Sep 26 22:16:50 2011
From: brainbuz at brainbuz.org (John Karr)
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 05:16:50 +0000
Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] Visiting monger
In-Reply-To:
References:
<20110917005615.GA20315@cancer.codesimply.com>
<20110917120055.GF19457@mawode.com>
<20110921023325.GC8708@isuckatdomains>,
Message-ID:
I work right near there. Since starting my current job I've been doing extensive field research in nearby Chinatown.
If the decision is Asian, my top recommendation is: Imperial Inn (146 North 10th St). They have good Dim Sum service at lunch time and the best Egg Rolls in Chinatown. There are a lot of other good choices in Chinatown too.
If the decision is not asian around 2nd and Market I recommend the National Mechanics (3rd off Market) or if people don't mind spending a little more, the Continental (2nd and Market). For Cheeseteaks Campos is right there at 2nd and Market.
________________________________________
From: philadelphia-pm-bounces+brainbuz=brainbuz.org at pm.org [philadelphia-pm-bounces+brainbuz=brainbuz.org at pm.org] on behalf of Aaron Crane [arc at aaroncrane.co.uk]
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 5:21 PM
To: Chris Nehren
Cc: philadelphia-pm at pm.org
Subject: Re: [Philadelphia-pm] Visiting monger
Chris Nehren wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 17:58:50 -0400 , Aaron Crane wrote:
>> A lunch meeting on the 6th sounds like it would work best given the
>> constraints for travel to PPW, even though some people won't be able
>> to make it. Does anyone have a suggestion for place and time?
>
> I could make lunch on the sixth, presuming it's somewhere in center city
> or university city. Suggestion on place depends on what you want to
> have. We're fortunate to have so very many places to eat in the city
> that it's difficult to recommend a place without any idea of what one
> wants to have. I'm partial to Asian cuisine myself, but am open to other
> options.
Asian food works well for me, and I'm generally an unfussy eater who
can enjoy pretty much any cuisine, so I'm happy to go along with the
consensus. I'm naturally planning to try a cheesesteak while I'm in
town, but I can happily do that another time, of course.
I'm currently booked into a hotel near the 2nd Street subway station.
I'm sure I can find my way to another neighborhood for lunch, though.
--
Aaron Crane ** http://aaroncrane.co.uk/
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From hao at iteaha.us Tue Sep 27 03:50:36 2011
From: hao at iteaha.us (=?utf-8?Q?=22N=2E_Hao_Ching_=E7=A8=8B=E6=B5=A9=E6=BA=90=22?=)
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 06:50:36 -0400
Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] Visiting monger
In-Reply-To:
References:
<20110917005615.GA20315@cancer.codesimply.com>
<20110917120055.GF19457@mawode.com>
<20110921023325.GC8708@isuckatdomains>,
Message-ID: <416A8D9A-A716-4595-A817-171BF88E0378@iteaha.us>
Imperial Inn is a great choice. My family and I often go there.
If I may, I?d also suggest my friend?s newly opened Thai restaurant, which has gotten good reviews:
http://erawanchinatown.com/
There?s plenty of seating, but you may want to make an online reservation just in case.
-Hao
On Sep 27, 2011, at 1:16 AM, John Karr wrote:
> I work right near there. Since starting my current job I've been doing extensive field research in nearby Chinatown.
>
> If the decision is Asian, my top recommendation is: Imperial Inn (146 North 10th St). They have good Dim Sum service at lunch time and the best Egg Rolls in Chinatown. There are a lot of other good choices in Chinatown too.
>
> If the decision is not asian around 2nd and Market I recommend the National Mechanics (3rd off Market) or if people don't mind spending a little more, the Continental (2nd and Market). For Cheeseteaks Campos is right there at 2nd and Market.
> ________________________________________
> From: philadelphia-pm-bounces+brainbuz=brainbuz.org at pm.org [philadelphia-pm-bounces+brainbuz=brainbuz.org at pm.org] on behalf of Aaron Crane [arc at aaroncrane.co.uk]
> Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 5:21 PM
> To: Chris Nehren
> Cc: philadelphia-pm at pm.org
> Subject: Re: [Philadelphia-pm] Visiting monger
>
> Chris Nehren wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 17:58:50 -0400 , Aaron Crane wrote:
>>> A lunch meeting on the 6th sounds like it would work best given the
>>> constraints for travel to PPW, even though some people won't be able
>>> to make it. Does anyone have a suggestion for place and time?
>>
>> I could make lunch on the sixth, presuming it's somewhere in center city
>> or university city. Suggestion on place depends on what you want to
>> have. We're fortunate to have so very many places to eat in the city
>> that it's difficult to recommend a place without any idea of what one
>> wants to have. I'm partial to Asian cuisine myself, but am open to other
>> options.
>
> Asian food works well for me, and I'm generally an unfussy eater who
> can enjoy pretty much any cuisine, so I'm happy to go along with the
> consensus. I'm naturally planning to try a cheesesteak while I'm in
> town, but I can happily do that another time, of course.
>
> I'm currently booked into a hotel near the 2nd Street subway station.
> I'm sure I can find my way to another neighborhood for lunch, though.
>
> --
> Aaron Crane ** http://aaroncrane.co.uk/
> _______________________________________________
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From we at ana.io Mon Sep 26 22:38:26 2011
From: we at ana.io (Al Newkirk & Associates)
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 01:38:26 -0400
Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] Visiting monger
In-Reply-To:
References:
<20110917005615.GA20315@cancer.codesimply.com>
<20110917120055.GF19457@mawode.com>
<20110921023325.GC8708@isuckatdomains>
Message-ID:
I'm partial to Sushi, great sushi place at 12th and Walnut, AKI Japanese
Fusion.
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Aaron Crane wrote:
> Chris Nehren wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 17:58:50 -0400 , Aaron Crane wrote:
> >> A lunch meeting on the 6th sounds like it would work best given the
> >> constraints for travel to PPW, even though some people won't be able
> >> to make it. Does anyone have a suggestion for place and time?
> >
> > I could make lunch on the sixth, presuming it's somewhere in center city
> > or university city. Suggestion on place depends on what you want to
> > have. We're fortunate to have so very many places to eat in the city
> > that it's difficult to recommend a place without any idea of what one
> > wants to have. I'm partial to Asian cuisine myself, but am open to other
> > options.
>
> Asian food works well for me, and I'm generally an unfussy eater who
> can enjoy pretty much any cuisine, so I'm happy to go along with the
> consensus. I'm naturally planning to try a cheesesteak while I'm in
> town, but I can happily do that another time, of course.
>
> I'm currently booked into a hotel near the 2nd Street subway station.
> I'm sure I can find my way to another neighborhood for lunch, though.
>
> --
> Aaron Crane ** http://aaroncrane.co.uk/
> _______________________________________________
> Philadelphia-pm mailing list
> Philadelphia-pm at pm.org
> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/philadelphia-pm
>
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*
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From jeffj at panix.com Thu Sep 29 04:58:48 2011
From: jeffj at panix.com (Jeff Jonas)
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 07:58:48 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] Wanamaker Organ's 100th anniversary
Message-ID:
I know it's not Perl related but a C++/Unix friend and I
will be in your fair city of Philly on Saturday night
for the Wanamaker Organ's 100th anniversary concert.
Are any others on this list attending?
It would be great to meet for dinner before the concert:
and for recommendations where to dine.
thanks!
-- Jeff Jonas
(I met you folks while consulting in Philly for y2k coverage,
but I still live in NJ)